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Does Hogwarts Legacy (Epic Games) work (well) in wine?
If you don't know already, go to epic games store and claim Hogwarts Legacy for free!
Have anyone tried running epic games version already? Also what should I install (native and in wine) for it to work?
My system is CachyOS with intel i5 13th gen and rx6700 xt.
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Unable to add drives to Steam after editing fstab.
Using CachyOS. First week so be gentle.
I was using Steam fine until I got tired of manually mounting my drives and added them into fstab. After doing so Steam will no longer even see them, just Root. After removing the entries from fstab everything goes back to working.
fstab was working in terms of automatically mounting the drives, btw, just broke Steam...
Any ideas? Thanks.
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Why does everyone recommend the system package of Steam?
I use linux mint and have the option of using the flatpak or system package of Steam. Everyone seems to recommend the system package of steam but I can't get past the main menu of a game without it crashing. However when I use the flatpak (which is still annoying and has plenty of problems) I am able to actually play the same games that wouldn't work on the system package. Am I missing something or is the flatpak actually better?
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Best Distros For Gaming
I have been using linux mint for a while now and have also used pop os. They work okay for gaming but there are hoops you have to jump through to get games to run properly and even then sometimes they will randomly stop working. Anyways I'm making this post to ask if I should switch to another distro that isn't based on ubuntu, maybe something based on arch or fedora. Do you think I will still have problems or will another distro based on something else will work better?
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gtx 1050 ti or rx 560
i want to escape from uhd 630 but with the current money that i have, i can only buy gtx 1050ti or rx 560 (560d actually) from afox and asrock. i have no courage to buy used card and my monitor have resolution 1600x900p.
i3 8100, mint cinnamon 22.2.
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A Native Linux Games 🎮 Collection. Only Native 🐧, no Wine/Proton 🚫 and other.
Check the whole Native Linux games internet archive collection
A Native Linux Games Collection. Only Native, no Wine/Proton and other.
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Linux newbie quick Q? Controller's
Hi, I had a quick question. I'm still new, about 3 months now, but with the game awards today, I went to play the Pragmata demo on Steam. I haven't played since switching over, but I'm having problems with both my Xbox USB dongle Bluetooth won't and DualSense Bluetooth does connect but don't register when playing on Steam. Is there a program I need to get, or are none of them connecting?
It helps if I'm on CachyOS.
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vinegar for roblox doesnt open
i installed vinegar after moving to cachy os so i could get back onto my game work but after it was done installing it's stuff it opened for one second before closing again and now everytime i open it it will instantly close. i cant even get to the main app, not only studio. i tried reinstalling as well as trying to use my integrated and discrete graphics but nothin. do yall know anything about this?
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How do I make a partition in bazzite?
Got a GPD win 4 and immediately overwrote my windows install with bazzite - unfortunately, before doing so I forgot to do some setup that can only be done with windows, so I need to reinstall it. Obviously I don't want to lose all the stuff I've already done on bazzite, though, so I was wondering if it'd be possible for me to set a few gigs aside in bazzite and then install windows there in the typical usb-fashion?
I ask here because whenever I look up how to partition in bazzite I just get a bunch of results telling me how to parition windows for dual booting bazzite, but not the other way around. Any help would be very appreciated.
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What are people using for Battle.net games?
As the title says, how are people playing Blizzard games under Linux?
I usually use Heroic but that doesn't support it and I have had a lot of Lutris issues. Are people using Bottles or do I just have really bad luck with Lutris?
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Logitech g502x lightspeed being tricky
Setting up 10 button mouse, I've found discussions on using Solaar and Piper, but find out neither supports this mouse. Both these discussions are a bit out of date, so I wanted to ask if there has been updated support for the g502x lightspeed.
Piper won't detect the mouse wirelessly, even. So perhaps the newest version of Solaar. But I read up on it, and it says I need PyPl to download it? This seems bizarre, surely there is a flatpack or something?
Even then, I'm not sure it'll let me use all 10 buttons. I'm told I need piper with a configured ratbag, but then I'd lose wireless option.
If anyone has experience with this, I feel like it's going way over my head. For now I'll mess with PyPl.
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Downsides of having 2 GPUs?
A year ago I bought an rtx 4060ti and I'm wondering if there could be any errors if i connected my old gtx 1650 in the second slot.
The reason for this is that i want to play some games on win11 so I could use the old gpu for the VM and keep the normal one for my current system (linux mint cinnamon if that's important), I don't really know how running 2 gpus at the same time works so I'm afraid they might get switched up or something, are my concerns reasonable?
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Rockstar games launcher error
I am a linux noob, I recently installed linux mint and when I launch gta v through the heroic launcher it gives me this error back to back
The Rockstar Games Launcher timed out loading both its online and offine content. Please check your connection and try again later. If you continue to have problems, please contact Rockstar Games Customer Support at https://support.rockstargames.com.
I tried closing and opening ipv6 ports etc
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No HDR and No SPATIAL audio like ATMOS?
Mac user, Windows gamer, now Linux user/gamer.
It's a lot to give up when it comes to HDR/Atmos. To be fair a lot of games on Windows have awful HDR and for most I can game without but for certain games, it makes all the difference.
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Linux ironically saved a piece of Microsoft hardware from the scrap heap
And honestly it's a gorgeous piece of hardware someone was actually going to throw this into a tech recycle pile because it didn't support Windows 11. Offered to take it and they said yes.
I have Steam installed on it and I'm looking for some low end game suggestions. I've found even older games struggle when trying to run them at native res (3000x2000) since I'm working with a combination of a 7th gen i5's Intel HD graphics and a basically 4k screen.
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Is it possible to play the new lego party on linux with everyone using their phone as a controller?
Cosmic 1.0 has released
https://blog.system76.com/post/pop-os-letter-from-our-founder
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Whats the main reason many big games with anti cheat (Fortnite, apex, siege etc) wont run on linux?
Is there any genuine compatibility reason why these anti cheat solutions can't/won't work on Linux or is it purely down to publishers not enabling it for Linux users?
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sober not running
it says my drivers arent supported or something.
i use crostini but it still worked before an update shortly before.
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(U)Green Knight - the holy grail of HDMI 2.1 dongles (yet another 4k 120Hz post)
Hi y'all! Lawstorant here. I've heard, you like high performance gaming?
Preamble or how I met your signalAs a lot of you are painfully aware, HDMI forum is a bunch of losers that don't want us Linux folk to play with their shiny toys like HDMI 2.1. Shame on them. The always hotly debated topic is the use of active adapter dongles to convert DisplayPort to HDMI 2.1. After all, we're not paying for expensive GPUs to be forced to use 4:2:0 color compression and only 8 bits for bt.2020 color space.
The issue is that the dongles are imperfect. Unstable signal, issues with HDR metedata, getting VRR to work at all, we all know the current pain points. The highly coveted CableMatters adapter (and others based on Synaptics VMM7100) is still a bit of a hit-or-miss. You need to flash specific firmware and you need windows to do so. When you finally set it up, turns out VRR maybe works if your TV supports Freesync over HDMI explicitly, bare HDMI VRR won't work.
Then, you find out that sometimes HDR doesn't trigger properly, you hunt down firmware which someone dumped from another Chinese dongle. HDR is a bit more stable, but for some, after toggling VRR on or off, signal is sometimes lost and needs reconnect or TV restart. It works at 80% but still not there yet, no VRR for all and unstable signal means it's a gamble.
Knight in a shining armor (model 85564, DP134)Here comes a new challenger. As reported by u/steiNetti in this thread, UGreen semi-recently got into the DisplayPort 1.4 to HDMI 2.1 adapter game and they are bringing in big guns. They claim great stability and even VRR with compatibility for a wide range of hardware. It's like they actually did some testing.
Not thinking much, it was available on german amazon so I bought it (the warehouse is near Szczecin, Poland; next day delivery baby!). He wasn't successful in getting VRR to work but I'm not afraid of getting my hands dirty in kernel code and my good friend was doing a lot of VRR with MST testing a few years ago, so I have my source of help.
The dongle came to my local Urządzenie Paczkomat™, I grabbed it and started testing. First impression was great. No issues with HDR kicking in, no issues with colors and crushed blacks, ALLM, 4k 120 Hz 10 bit HDR works. Signal seems very stable and no weird blackouts. So far so good. Unfortunately... no VRR available
Not so fast! I remembered that AMD has a whitelist for PCONs that are allowed to work with VRR. Probably implemented to make sure the user experience won't be bad but ugh, no easy way of overriding the check but to add the dongle there. I added info prints, got the dongle ID, added it to the whitelist, compiled and rebooted.
Nice. Warms my heart. Tested a bunch with VRR test and games. VRR works perfect nad the VRR flicker is almost gone vs CableMatters dongle. I didn't even thing a dongle could affect that. I created an issue on the amdgpu issue tracker to add this dongle to the whitelist + attached my patch which was sent to amdgfx mailing list as well. You can find the issue here and the patch for this dongle is attached there as well.
Forcing my way inThe work is never done! OP tested with his other TV which supports FreeSync and got the same result, VRR works. Still, his Sony TV only supports HDMI VRR so no dice. Here's the thing though, I noticed that contrary to the CableMatters adapter, my TV doesn't show FreeSync as the VRR mode, it always stays as "VRR". The CableMatters dongle switches form "VRR" to FreeSync while the signal is actually variable (amdgpu always activates VRR on DisplayPort if it's available, it just doesn't adjust the timings until told to do so).
VRR has many names but fundamentally, it's always doing the same thing, and it's implementation is fairly simple. Some old CRT screens can even do VRR because it's just doing variable length back porch before vsync signal. HDMI VRR, Vesa Adaptive Sync, FreeSync, G-Sync compatible (maybe even gsync itself) are pretty much all the same.
This gave me an idea. I forced the check for VRR with PCON to always be true, added a hardcoded VRR range since amdgpu doesn't parse the HDMI VRR info from EDID and FreeSync extension block is obviously missing. OP compiled my change aaaaaand...
Lawstorant you old fox! You did it again. Honestly though, I didn't expect this to work as easily, yay!
A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome oneu/steiNetti spotted something else as well. When booting SteamOS 3.9 the PC behaved like Steam Deck and, whaaat, responded to TV remote? Though not advertised on it's Amazon page, the dongle has the CEC pin wired up and actually does HDMI CEC tunneling!
Why is this quite the news? It comes to the gimped HDMI implementations as well. Most, if not all, modern GPUs don't even bother connecting the CEC pin in their native HDMI ports. Weirdly enough, the display core and drivers do support CEC and expose /dev/cec0 device, maybe more. DisplayPort supports omething called CEC Tunneling as well for active adapters (passive adapters that rely on DP++ switch the DP port into native HDMI mode, no tunneling needed but no CEC pin either).
Now, why would we care that much? Because most TVs, even in PC mode, are quite stupid and don't standby/wake up on signal loss/pickup. CEC allows us to control a lot of things, but most importantly turn the TV on/off and switch inputs. This works great with this dongle and turns out to be one of the cheapest and easiest way to get CEC.
The one limitation is wake on command FROM the TV as this need the connected device to react. GPU is asleep, OS is down, it won't work. You can get this functionality with the much more expensive and harder to get Pulse Eight adapter, but it needs quite a bit of setup and, I just don't care? I wake my PC with my Xbox controller. Pulse Eight doesn't support HDMI 2.1 so you'd have to use two HDMI cables either way and it starts to get messy.
Work it, Make it, Do it, Makes CECHow do we set up CEC then? Funny you should ask. Everything is handled OOTB for us, we just need to talk to the TV. cec-ctl is my weapon of choice. Works great, not many dependencies, reliable. Thing is, the commands still need some know-how and are IMO a bit too convoluted. For that reason, I created cec-toolbox (better readme in the coming days). A simple bash script that makes it even easier to control your TV. Very opinionated and straight to the point. Now controlling your TV is as easy as cec-toolbox on which registers your PC, turns on the TV and switches input.
I'm not stupid though, who want's to do this manually though? For that reason I added a few simple systemd service units that will trigger TV wakeup/standby when the PC is turned on/woken/put to sleep/turned off. The included makefile can install and enable said services. I specifically made it so it does more than SteamOS which only wakes the TV up. Depending on your TV, it might not even turn itself off if you switched to something else like watching YouTube or just another HDMI input (that's the case for my Samsung S95B).
Ladies and gentleman, we goteem.
AfterwordI think this Ugreen dongle is now the best one to achieve 4K 120 Hz with our gimped HDMI on Radeon GPUs. Of course, it will be even better for more people to report in their time with it, but at least for me, it's nearly perfect. Just the inclusion of CEC makes me think that I will stick to using adapter even if we get native HDMI 2.1 down the line or I could use two HDMI cables since with CEC, you can switch to any input you want. Let's hope they accept my patch to the amdgpu shortly and maybe follow the Idea of enabling VRR not only when explicit FreeSync support is advertised by the TV.
One more bonus for me is that the TV thinks something is still connected to HDMI3 even after I move my PC back to my room. This makes it so it doesn't reset all my HDR calibration, game mode options, etc for this port. Very much appreciated.
FYI, for TV gaming, I'm using gamescope session on vanilla Arch. steam-big-picture-session is finally a package that sets it up properly, with all system settings accessible just like on the Steam Deck. Even GPU max TDP slider works.
F*** HDMI forum, f*** MPEG-LA, abolish software patents!
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